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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
A beautiful day and a beautiful movie
A beautiful movie about childhood, forgiveness, family and friendship. It leaves you with a feeling of warmth. It makes you wanna love yourself better, to embrace your inner child and hold your family close, despite its imperfections. Who wouldn't wanna watch a movie like that?
What a world it would be if everyone treated each other, like Mr. Rogers treats people!
Everyone who is carrying hurt, bitterness or anger should watch this movie. It may reflect your thoughts and remind you that we are all in this together!
Extraction (2020)
Shows what's possible with an action cinema in 2020
Extraction is an adrenaline pumping ride for you action movie lovers that's gonna put you on the edge of your seats! It features intricately choreographed fight sequences that are made in a way never seen before! The whole movie is pretty much one non-stop gun fight! The cinematography to achieve this is crazy immersive. It put's you right in the middle of the action! Must have had one of the best camera crews in the whole industry!
Finally I wanna say, the action, though gruesome was not entirely mindless. The movie had some deeply emotional moments. Good job with the story Joe Russo! It's not very often that you find action movies with a non-cliche story!
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
An unusually impactful movie
Very rarely do we find a movie that can make us heartily laugh-out-loud and yet convey a deeply striking message. These kind are hard to make. But not if you are Taika Waititi!
Jojo Rabbit is a war film that is actually about love. Not the cheesy romantic kind, but the love of friendship and the love of a mother. It's about kindness amidst hate!
In short, it's beautifully paradoxical! It's an adult's film with a kid as the protagonist or perhaps a kid's film with adult themes! I'm not sure, but I absolutely loved it!
See: Godflame (2019)
Intriguing premise, riveting story, and beautifully shot
The first episode was engrossing from start to finish. Jason Mamoa killed-it a tribal chief! His wild and intimidating personality was very effective. The fight sequences were adrenaline pumping.
The star of the show though, is the very unique storyline and plot. Leaves you thinking, "Why didn't I think of that before."
From watching just the first episode I can say, this show has a lot of potential!
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
Jesse Pinkman's final breaking bad episode
El Camino's purpose is to give us a closure of Jesse's side of things. Though his road was a rocky one filled with trauma and dread, he figures his way through it finally and reaches Alaska. This he does, with a little help from old acquaintances and a few last elimination of enemies which gets inevitable during the course of the movie. Its inevitable, because he is a man desperate for a second chance at life, and for someone like Jesse Pinkman, putting things right isn't a possibility anymore! He may merely just start over.
The movie does a great a job with this and is really well made. Aaron Paul proves to be an amazing actor and I'm sure if presented with a great role, will give us an award worthy performance. Some sequences are quite emotionally charged and makes one sympathise with those that society labels, "criminals". The end of the movie however, leaves us nothing but happy for Jesse.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
A one-time watchable fairytale adventure
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil appeals to the kid within and is a fun sequel, but the overly cliched plot which is along the lines of Avatar(2009) and Pocahontas(1995) bores a little.
However, though the plot is cliche, Angelina Jolie's character of Maleficent was quite charming and at times hilarious, which makes it worth a watch. The lady's still got it!
Joker (2019)
The Joker we need but maybe not the one we deserve right now! A rare masterpiece - an intriguing character study!
Before anything, I want to commend Joaquin Phoenix for absolutely nailing the 'Joker laugh'! It was so satisfying to hear the iconic menacing laugh on the big screen that has become so synonymous with Joker, ever since Mark Hamill's take on the character. The previous two jokers haven't portrayed this characteristic of the Joker in a way that Phoenix did.
However, saying that, this movie isn't your usual comic-book movie. It's been rated R and rightly so, because Todd Philip's Joker is a psychological character study, of "what you get when a mentally-ill loner is crossed with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash." This isn't the Joker we deserve but the Joker we need right now!
Now, I say he the Joker we 'don't deserve' because, he is not the kind that could ploy a masterful plan to ensnare Batman, nor could he bring Gotham to its knees by posing it with a philosophical riddle to choose its own fate (the scene where Heath Ledger sets up bombs on 2 ships in 'The Dark Knight' for example). At least, not yet. On the contrary, the film's description of mentally-ill individuals isn't very respectful and is presumptive in nature.
Instead of all this, the 'Joker' is grounded in raw reality. The filmmaker wants us to sympathise with Arthur's reasons to becoming the ruthless villain, rather than look at him as someone "who just wants to watch the world burn" (Alfred in 'Dark Knight') without any reason. And this, is the point of the whole movie. Arthur fleck is a hapless victim of one inciting incident spiralling into another ultimately turning him in the clown prince of Gotham.
That is the reason I say, "He is the Joker we need right now". We need reminding of the fact that every victimiser was once the victim himself. Joker, is the victim of a Gotham that uses its predicament (extreme poverty, economic collapse) as an excuse for the persecution of its defenceless. Arthur fleck being a mentally challenged, extremely poor and lonely civilian, isn't spared. It is therefore ironic, but not surprising that the city's worst bane later on, is of its own doing. Gotham's true son isn't Batman. It's Joker!